Door-hanger for slidable doors.



PATENTED DEC. 19, 1905.

A. 0. & G. B. BANKS. DOOR HANGER FOR SLIDABLE DOORS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.2B. 1904:.

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A. O. & G. E. BANKS. DOOR HANGER FOR SLIDABLE DOORS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.28, 1904.

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cairn srar zs ATENT ornrcn AMOS O. BANKS AND GEORGE E. BANKS, BALTIMORE,MARYLAND.

DOOR-HANGER FOR SLIDABLE DOORS.

No. 807,429. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented. Dec. 19, 1905.Applicati n fi fi $eptember 28, 1904. $erial1lo. 226.321. T01 aZZ whomit may concern.- inner face of the hanger,thus giving suflicient playfor the short vertical guide-flange of the trackwhen the door is beingopened or closed. This track or rail upon which the hangers travelconsists of an L-shaped support having a vertical flange 12, providedwith perfo rations to receive bolts by which the same is secured to theside of the car or buildings, and at right angles to this flange is thehorizontal rail portion w, upon which the upper roller travels,while theunder side of this portion w provides a way for the lower roller to bearagainst and travel on when the door is being opened or closed or beingtilted or thrown out of its vertical line, thereby preventing said doorfrom holding or binding, which is the case with all doors hung from thetop. It will be observed from the above description, when taken inconnection with the annexed drawings, that our main object inconstructing this door-hanger is to provide means whereby it isimpossible for the door to bind or become stuck when thrown back inopening or when being closed. To accomplish this, we have provided thesecond or lower roller, which is used in combination with the upper andlarger roller, and when the door is being opened or closed the upperroller bears the weight of the same and travels upon the upper face ofthe track and is guided by the short vertical flange of the L- shapedrail or track, and should the door be thrown upward or out of a verticalline when being opened or closed the lower roller comes into play, thesame engaging the under side of Be it known that we, Amos 0. BANKS andGEORGE E. BANKS, citizens of the United States, residing at Baltimorecity, State of Maryland, have invented new and useful Im provements inDoor-Hangers for Slidable Doors, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention has relation to improvements in door-hangers for slidabledoors; and it consists in the novel construction, combination, andarrangement of the same, all as will be hereinafter described,andparticularly pointed out in the appended claim.

The annexed drawings, to which reference which Figure 1 represents afront view of a freightcar door showing our device applied thereto. Fig.2 is a vertical detail transverse sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 isan end view of the L-shaped track or rail upon which the hangers travel.Fig. 4 is a rear view of one of the hangers. Fig. 5 is a face view ofone of the guide-blocks, and Fig. 6 is an edge view of the same, andFig. 7 is a vertical sectional view of the hanger.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates ourhanger attached to a freight-car door, provided with the perforations ato rece've the bolts 1), by which said hanger is secured to the upperportion of the door 0. At the upper end of the hanger and upon the rearface thereof is a housing or frame (1, within which is arranged andpivotally supported the large roller 6, and below the track, travelingthereon and preventing this frame is an angular support f, between anybinding of the door. Again, it will be the vertical portion gof whichand the hanger seen that the two rollers are independent of each otherin their movements upon the track, and the slotted bearings for thejournals of .the rollers permit a free vertical play to the hanger. Atthe same time the rollers can be readily placed in position in thehanger or removed therefrom through the open ends of the bearings on thean ular plateand inner plate of the top frame 0 the hanger. Also it willbe observed that this angular offset or plate provides, in connectionwith the vertical hanger or body, a square shoulder 17;, which fitssnugly upon the top of the door and serves, in connection with the boltspassing through the hanger, to secure the latter firmly in position onthe door. The track above the door on which the hangers travelterminates at the points y y, leaving spaces or openings 2 2 between theopposite ends of is arranged and journaled the small roller h. Thisangular lug or plate is provided with a bearing i, which is open at thetop, as at j, and the inner horizontal plate is of the top frame (1 isalso provided with a bearing Z, the lower portion m being open, asclearly shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings.

Opposite to the bearings above described are upper and lower bearings nand 0, the same being at opposite ends of a vertical slot 19, formed inthe hanger at the upper portion thereof. The rollers e and h areprovided with the journals 4" and s, which engage the bearings, saidjournals, the hubs tit, and the rollers being formed integral. The hubst of the rollers are shorter than the hubs a, this construction beingdesigned to throw the tread of said rollers inwardly and OH from the therail and the end blocks a a, secured to the side of the car, whereby therollers can be readily inserted in placing them upon the track. Aface-board b is secured to each end block a, thus, in connection withthe extension 'of the roof of a car, providing a housing for theprotection of the track and hangers, with their rollers, against snow,rain, and ice.

0 0 represent angular guide-brackets that are secured by bolts to theside of the'car and below the dooropening, said brackets being designedto guide and hold the door in position, the edges cl being curvedoutward, while the horizontal portion or floor e of the offset curvesdownward, thus giving a flaring mouth or inlet for the door both at theside of the brackets and the floor 6, thereby guiding the door thereinwhen being opened or closed, and a stOp-bracketf is secured to the carfor limiting or stopping the door when thrown backward, and a deviceas'herein described is durable, not liable to get out of order, and atthe same time cheap to manufacture.

Having thus described our invention,what we claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

In a device of the character described, an L-shaped tracksecured to theside of the car above the opening therein and formed with a verticalflange along its outer edge,- a door slidab'ly mounted parallel with theface of the car, hangers secured to the outer face of the door andextending above the upper end thereof and formed withinwardly-extendinghousings at their upper end portions surrounding therollers therein and having open-slot bear= ings in their inner walls anda vertical slot in the upwardlyextending portion of the hanger, aninwardly extending bracket formed on the stem of the hanger'below thetrack and having a vertical'flange at the inner side formed with anopen-slot bearing rollers AMOS o. BANKS. GEORGE El BANKS. Witnesses IMURRAY HANSON, GRosVENoR HANSON.

